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  1. Posted

    How much of this map is open terrain, including parks?

    Hey!

    Hard to tell atm.

    But I guess around 3x2km! Some forests, some hills and alot of open area with farms.

    I all depends on how the performance turns out when I'm finished with the city.

    Which is aaalmost finished. :bounce3:

    The fps is starting to get low, so I'm considering some different options. :(

  3. Posted

    The detail is what is important. Otherwise it will be just a bunch of boxes with ridiculously clean yards like it happened to all city maps but Avgani so far.

    Totally agree.

    Detailing the map will probably be an endless project...

    But I will try to make sure that there's no empty backyards at the first public release.

  5. Posted

    Hi mates!

    I use alot of sidewalks in my map, and a big amount of them are increased in size, to 300%.

    Since one of the later patches, 1.55 I think, no units can walk on them anymore without getting stuck,

    even though the sidewalks are lowered further into the ground...

    I guess there is no solution but to remake all of the sidewalks and use

    their standard size.

    But I figured I should bring it up here, both asking for help and as info for everyone here.

    Cheers!

  7. Posted

    You guys know that scene in Generation Kill where Sgt. Espera is talking about inducing orgasm with your mind? Seeing this map made me come close to achieving that!

    Oh, how close is the airport in relation to the industrial area?

    Haha! I know that scene!! Thanks man!

    The airport is gonna get "built into" the city, at the southern edge of it.

    So it's gonna be very close to the industrial areas,

    and probably there's gonna be some suburbs/villa areas close to it aswell.

  12. Posted

    Here is some new photos overlooking the city.

    Some of the areas are still under development, so it's due to change...

    Ignore the satmap.... Need to make one from scratch.

    Overview from the southwest:

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    Overview from the east:

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    Overview from the northeast:

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    The harbour:

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    Airfield in the city:

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  13. Posted

    I would like to see more buildings and houses with the ability of entering them, more interaction the ability of having good I emphasize good close quarter combat fighting as you would see in other First Person shooters while still holding onto the great game we have. but nothing would be better to me then to see areas that have to be swept inside and out the open desert is not enough for the awesome editor we have.

    I second with this.

    I could really use some more enterable (western style) buildings for the map I'm building.

    Like warehouses, shops and apartments...

  15. Posted

    Yeah, the zombies are doing a good job stalking the player through buildings and tight alleys, so it's hopefully gonna be a good map for that. I might add the mission I use where you begin at dawn and have to search the city for guns and flashlight before it gets too dark. Scary stuff.

    Anyway, infantry works well on the map.

    AI vehicles on the otherhand, they have a hard time driving properly around some parts of the town.

    The warehouse is still on an experimental stage.

  18. Posted

    Have you personally played the Baghdad or Fallujah city maps and seen the SCALE of them? I would love to have a western style city on that size.

    I really have no idea how mapping for arma 2 is since I'm used to the SDK with Valve's source games like half life 2 and so forth, but I would first make the city, with just about all un-enterable buildings for the alpha/beta, just to get a feel, then gradually replace with more complex, enterable buildings and see how performance goes.

    Also sanders has some good stuff right there.

    Yes, I have tried both of the maps and like them alot, they're enormous.

    The reason I started this project is as you say, it would be nice to see a western style city that size.

    But my first priority is still to make each single streetcorner lifelike and interesting to have a fight in, by placing many open buildings, nice backyards and alleys.

    So I build it one street at a time, making sure it has a purpose and doesn't look random.

    Size is secondary, so instead of deciding a size already,

    I will gradually increase the size after alpha/beta.

    Emita's urban area is bigger than Zargabad's already.

    And performance is still very much acceptable, smoother than Zargabad.

    I agree, @WeaponsFree.

    @jsanders, thanks for the tips! I'm trying hard to make the districts feel different.

    Feel free to PM me some links or photos if you have ideas,

    but keep in mind that all I have to work with is the Arma 1/2 buildings.

    Thanks for the feedback guys! Helps alot.

    Cheers

  19. Posted · Edited by bracer

    Alright! Sounds wonderful! Glad to be of assistance to your project. Do you have a map to show us how big the city will be?

    Well, I'm honestly not sure how big it will be yet, it all depends on the performance.

    I could choose to use those blocky buildings without interiors and make it endlessly big,

    but my intention is to make alot of variation in the city and make sure there's plenty of hiding places and interiors.

    This costs performance though. So we'll see...

    I guess the important question is how big it should be upon beta-release?

    I'm currently aiming for 3x2km urban area, I think that's approx twice the size of Zargabad city.

    Then depending on the feedback I get i might make it bigger or smaller...

    The ultimate goal is of course to fill out the whole 5x5km terrain with urban area! :bounce3:

    So maybe 3x3km detailed city and the rest I fill out with purerly textured blocky houses?

    A totally different discussion is how big the surronding area should be,

    like forests, smaller towns, farms, mountains or open areas for base building? What's needed? Is it needed?

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    I would like to see 2 versions, a Pre-War and a Mid/After-War version like it is now. If that's not possible, keep it how it looks now, a war torn city.

    Yeah, I'm still thinking about how I should do it.

    My latest thought is to keep the destroyed urban areas somewhat seperated from the main city, like a suburb or in the outskirts...

    Two versions would be cool though, one totally clean and one that's really messed up!

    ---------- Post added at 06:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:36 AM ----------

    Lookin' good!

    Thanks mate!

  20. Posted

    Yeah, good idea! I should make more courtyards, with market stands and stuff in between the buildings.

    I see what you meen, the destroyed parts will indeed have limited usage in missions.

    I will try to repair as much as possible as soon as I see how the performance turns out when the city has reach the intended size.

    Else I will compensate by making the destroyed/ghetto areas look good with stuff you can't create in the editor,

    like destroyed houses with walls still standing, bomb craters and mud textures. :cool:

  21. Posted

    Thanks for the input guys!

    1. I've seen some videos and it seems the city is partially destroyed? Will there be a "clean" version where everything is intact?

    Yes, it's partially destroyed!

    I don't have any plans for making a clean version, yet.

    My reasons for making it partially is:

    -I like the look of it! :) And infantry battles among blownout buildings are fun.

    -I think the destroyed buildings saves some performance while still being buildings with "interiors". So instead of using those boxy buildings with just textures to keep the Fps up, I prefer blownout buildings that you can enter and hide in.

    -It's all about variation, since there isn't so many multistory buildings.

    Agree? Feel free to share your thoughts!

    2. Are you going to use any custom building packs? I think there is a US Building Map pack being worked on, ALSO, check out this Urban Pack made by charon, it has a good selection of western city models for your city.

    Yeah, I have considered it. I haven't tested Charons pack yet, but among the other packs I've tested, there's only one or two buildings that I've been interested in (the few with interiors). And I don't think it's worth adding another 100mb to the addon for one or two new buildings. I want to be able to use atleast 50% of the pack in that case!

    If I'm gonna use custom buildings without interiors then they have to be rather high quality to fit among the A2 buildings.

    But I gladly accept single buildings if someone wants to have some custom buildings in this map!

    Cheers!

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    Yep they are looking very good. Is that third picture showing off the downtown district? Those skyscrapers should be spaced out, since they seem to be grouped together closely.

    Good point! Yes, they are grouped too close, mostly in the same street block...

    Will move them around a bit!

    Thanks again!

  22. Posted

    Thanks for the nice comments!

    Here's some (sadly, rather low quality) images of what the suburbs are gonna look like.

    And a view along one of the main streets through the city center.

    Thanks to Bushlurker I got some good old ArmA buildings with interiors to work, which meens a greater variation of enterable buildings.

    Unfortunatly the AI doesn't seem to be able to enter the Hotel... :butbut:

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  24. Posted

    Hey mates!

    I'm trying to figure out how to get some of the missing buildings from Arma1 into my Arma2 map (http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=108077).

    For example the Hotel that Shezan uses in his Fallujah map.

    One solution is of course to make my map require CAA1 or Fallujah, but I don't wanna do that. Since I only want a couple of the buildings.

    So, can someone explain how I get just one or two buildings from A1 into my A2 map? Any guide somewhere that I have missed?

    Best regards

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